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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1974
Page
2
AIM members discussed 1974 events and the start-up of the Arts in Middletown building. The building fund stood $150,000 from its goal, with completion potentially as early as October. The new space will serve Campus Community and two other AIM supported groups.
Mrs. Sarah Miller 86 dies at Middletown Hospital after transfer from Garden Manor Extended Care Center. Services for Pauline Betz 81 at Fairfield 10 a.m. Saturday. Campus Community Players co producing Can Can with Middletown Symphony and eyeing outside performance at Mt. St. Joseph's College in Cincinnati. Middletown Symphony plans 74-75 season with 13 AIM-sponsored programs and a memorial concert for Valda Wilerson. MFAC continues classes and AIM building work in Legion basement. enrollment 695 in 1973.
Five members of Cub Scout Pack 93 earned the Arrow of Light Award at a Sherman School meeting. Recipients included Dino Georgopolous Philip Huff Michael Hall and Doug Pitts with others advancing to Webelos or Scout Troop 93 and a wider list of advancements announced.
The Butler County grand jury will hear 28 cases starting Monday including seven from Middletown. Readouts list defendants such as John Hamm and Ralph Padgett with felonious assault and breaking and entering charges. Prosecutor John Holcomb cites a possible conflict of interest involving city of Hamilton land deals for the Butler County Metropolitan Housing Authority.
At 10 45 p m at the Lamberton Street Plymouth Avenue intersection two young women were injured in a crash. Diane Brock twenty of 2004 Carolina Street and Sonya Apgar nineteen of 2000 Carolina Street were taken to Middletown Hospital after her car went off the road through a fence into a yard at 2100 Lamberton Street. Damages were put at seven hundred dollars for the car and three hundred dollars for the residence of William Jenson.
Scott Dowrey, 15, won the Middletown Noon Optimist Club Boys Oratorical Contest at the Middletown Public Library. Second place went to Mark Hill, 13, and third to Doug Morgan, 11, with all contestants receiving certificates and trophies. Dowrey advances to the zone contest in Franklin ahead of district competition in Akron this August.
Middletown High School selects Clarence E. Page and George F. Schueler as commencement week speakers. Graduation is set for June 6. The board also approved bidding for four new school buses and agreed to auction three old buses, plus appointed staff for summer programs and community resources.
The Butler County Branch of the American Heart Association hosts a 12 mile Walk-A-Thon on Saturday April 6 starting at Fenwick High School. Adults can join with forms from schools. Top fundraiser gets a bicycle or a one year YMCA membership.
Franklin Ohio Bell foreman Paul C Howell received a bronze Vail Medal for saving 10 year old Malinda Hensen after she fell through a storm door pane May 12. Howell applied pressure to stop bleeding and directed the father on first aid until hospital care followed four hours of surgery. He has worked for Ohio Bell since 1964 and is now central office foreman in Middletown. He resides in Springfield with his family.
The Madison school board adopted final 1974 appropriations totaling 2,172,072.40 dollars with 1,753,928.10 to the general fund and 113,928.15 for bond retirement. Additional figures cover lunchroom fund 156,170.05 dollars uniform supplies 2,971.06 permanent improvements 144,746.06 and building fund 328.98 dollars.
A fire incident at 706 Sixth Ave yesterday at 4 48 p m sent Genevieve Murashi 64 to hospital by ambulance in fair condition today.
Hamilton City Manager Ed Smith Mayor Frank Witt and other officials visited Middletown to discuss transportation, mall and parking garage construction and four rubberized railroad crossings funded by the city and installed by the railroad. Middletown’s crossings at University Boulevard First Central and Manchester avenues and Oxford State Road prompted questions about main street crossings and future plans.
The McKendree-Spring quartet will perform at the Dave Finkelman auditorium Middletown Campus of Miami University at 8 30 p m tomorrow. Fran McKendree leads on acoustic guitar and vocals with Martin Slutsky on lead guitar Chris Bishop on bass and Michael Dreyfuss on electric violin and moog. MUM students may enter free with ID. guest tickets are $1 at the door. Event sponsored by the Pops Concert Committee.
Arthur E Motch a 19 year old from New Richmond was arrested at about 10 a.m. and charged with possession and cultivation after security officers found 30 marijuana plants in the backseat of his car parked behind Swing Hall on the Oxford campus. He was taken to the Butler County jail.
Acting Municipal Court Judge Vincent Sisson fined Neal Brackett 50 dollars for not reporting a traffic wreck. Randall Mathis 25 dollars and Daniel Hudson 50 dollars were imposed for related offenses. David Sullivan 50 dollars was fined for driving without a license.
Police responded to the 2000 block of Baltimore Street last night for a 20-year-old man in a suspected LSD flashback. A neighbor reported harassment at 9:51 p.m. He claimed to have used LSD weeks earlier and spoke of possession and robot hypnosis. Officers escorted him to his father’s home and urged medical care.
The Monroe Lemon Township Democratic Central and Executive Committee endorsed T Edward Strinko for the Eighth District congressional nomination. Temporary chair Ralph Bowling heads the group with central committeemen from five precincts and also endorsed Linda Reiff LeTourneau Gary Kaup Louella Schroeder and David Warmoth as party delegates.
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